Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, has about 31,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office and nine city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Trempealeau County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Trempealeau County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Trempealeau County
The Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Trempealeau County.
The FBI lists nine cities in Trempealeau County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Arcadia, 3,821 residents: 81 arrests reported for 2025.
- Trempealeau, 1,856 residents: 18 arrests reported for 2019.
- Osseo, 1,818 residents: 191 arrests reported for 2020.
- Galesville, 1,663 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2021.
- Whitehall, 1,618 residents: 70 arrests reported for 2025.
- Independence, 1,480 residents: 38 arrests reported for 2020.
- Blair, 1,284 residents: 101 arrests reported for 2019.
- Strum, 1,068 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2023.
- Eleva, 684 residents.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Trempealeau County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Arcadia: 81 for 2025, 113 for 2024, 144 for 2023, 176 for 2022, 225 for 2020 and 262 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Whitehall: 70 for 2025, 41 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 43 for 2022, 49 for 2021 and 49 for 2020.
- Strum: 6 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 23 for 2020 and 13 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Osseo: 191 for 2020 and 164 for 2019.
- Blair: 101 for 2019.
- Independence: 38 for 2020 and 22 for 2019.
- Galesville: 22 for 2021, 40 for 2020 and 29 for 2019.
- Trempealeau: 18 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 222 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2022 and 2021 complete reported 43 in 2022 against 49 in 2021, down 12 percent.
Galesville and Independence reported only part of 2022 (10 months and 3 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Trempealeau County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Trempealeau County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 59 people, up from about 24 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 78 beds, and it ran at 76 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office at co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/court___legal_departments/sheriffs... (page title: Trempealeau County), phone (715) 538-4509, 18600 Hobson Street Whitehall, WI 54773, Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at appsdoc.wi.gov/lop/welcome.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Trempealeau County
Whether someone was arrested in Trempealeau County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Trempealeau County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/court___legal_departments/circuit_..., phone 715-538-2311); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/court___legal_departments/district..., phone 715-538-2311).
Statewide, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access is the free statewide case search of every circuit court.
Wisconsin is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Wisconsin Online Record Check System lets anyone run a name-based check, through the Wisconsin Department of Justice. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Trempealeau County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law the agency must answer as soon as practicable and without delay; the law sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying and locating, with no charge for the first $50 of locating.
- An arrest by the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (715) 538-4509.
- An arrest in Arcadia, Trempealeau, Osseo, Galesville, Whitehall, Independence or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 715-538-2311, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Trempealeau County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.trempealeau.wi.us, phone 715-538-2311.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.trempealeau.wi.us (page title: Trempealeau County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Trempealeau County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 11 cities in Trempealeau County: Arcadia, Trempealeau, Osseo, Galesville, Whitehall, Independence, Blair, Strum and Eleva. Ettrick and Pigeon Falls have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Trempealeau County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Trempealeau County each year?
Arcadia reported 81 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Trempealeau County sent in full, the three with every month on file reported 222 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Trempealeau County?
Look on the custody page of the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office at co.trempealeau.wi.us, or call (715) 538-4509. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Trempealeau County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Trempealeau County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Wisconsin Department of Justice: the Wisconsin Online Record Check System lets anyone run a name-based check. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wisconsin Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Trempealeau County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law the answer is due as soon as practicable and without delay; the law sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.trempealeau.wi.us.
Is this the official Trempealeau County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.